6.
Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose
the right response.

Assertion
(A) : Dickens’s novels are called ‘Newgate Novels’.

Reason
(R) : They are called so, because Dickens
adulates in these novels the careers and adventures of criminals.

(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the
correct explanation.

(B) Both (A)
and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is
true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is
false, but (R) is true.

ØNewgate Novels(1830’s-1840’s) glorified the lives of the
criminals. Dickens’ Oliver Twist is classified
as Newgate novel by some critics.It gets its name from Newgate Calendar, a biography of criminals.

7.
Who among the following writers does not belong to the group, the University
Wits ?

(A) John Lyly

(B) Thomas
Nashe

(C) George
Peele

(D) Thomas Kyd

8.
Which of the following characters of Webster’s The
White Devil utters the

memorable
words :

Oft gay and
honour’d robes those tortures try :

We think cag’d
birds sing, when indeed they cry.

(A) Vittoria
Corombona

(B) Bracciano

(C) The
Cardinal

(D) Flamineo

9.
“All great literature is, at bottom, a criticism of life” – this
statement is attributed to

(A) Thomas
Carlyle

(B) Matthew Arnold

(C) J.S. Mill

(D) John
Ruskin

10.
Who amongst the following is not a Jewish-American novelist ?

(A) J.D. Salinger

(B) Henry Greene

(C) William
Faulkner

(D) Philip
Roth

ØHenry
Green is the psudonym of the British author Henry Vincent Yorke, author of ‘Nothing’ and ‘Loving’

11.
Which among the following plays by Christopher Marlowe has epic features
?

(A) Doctor
Faustus

(B) Edward
II

(C) Hero
and Leander

(D) Tamburlaine

12.
Sir Fopling is a character in

(A)
Wycherley’s The Plain Dealer

(B) Congreve’s
The Way of theWorld

(C) Etherege’s The Man of Mode

(D) Davenant’s
The Platonick Lovers

13.
Who famously said, “Three or four families in a Country Village is
the

very thing to
work on” ?

(A) Clara
Reeve

(B) Maria
Edgeworth

(C) Frances
Burney

(D) Jane Austen

14.
Ikemefuna is a character in the novel

(A) When
Rain Clouds Gather

(B) The
Mimic Men

(C) Things Fall Apart

(D) The
Interpreters

15.
A foot consisting of a strong syllable followed by a weak syllable
is called

(A) Trochee

(B) Iambic

(C) Spondee

(D) Terza Rima

16.
What is it that Chaucer focuses on in the depiction of the Wife of
Bath in

The
Canterbury Tales ?

(A) Meekness

(B) Defiance

(C) Chastity

(D) Experience

17.
Put the following books of Pope in a sequence of publication.
Answer the

question with
the help of the Code given below :

(i) The
Dunciad

(ii) The
Rape of the Lock

(iii) An
Essay on Man

(iv) An
Essay on Criticism

Code
:

(A) (ii),
(iii), (i), (iv)

(B) (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv)

(C) (iv), (ii), (i), (iii)

(D) (ii), (i),
(iv), (iii)

18.
Dinah Morris is a character in George Eliot’s novel

(A) Middlemarch

(B) Silas
Marner

(C) Daniel
Deronda

(D) Adam Bede

19.
The Booker Prize is awarded by a panel of judges to the best novel
by a citizen of

(A) the United
Kingdom

(B) the British Commonwealth or the Republic of
Ireland

(C) the United
Kingdom or the British Commonwealth

(D) the United
Kingdom or the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland

20.
A ‘curtal sonnet’ consists of

(A) 11 lines (B) 12 lines

(C) 13 lines
(D) 14 lines

21.
The Unfortunate Traveller has
been authored by

(A) Robert
Greene

(B) Thomas
Deloney

(C) Thomas Nashe

(D) Thomas
Lodge

22.
Who, among the following, is not a practitioner of Jacobean
tragedy ?

(A) George Villiers

(B) John
Marston

(C) John
Webster

(D) Thomas
Middleton

23.
The author of Nation and Narration is

(A) Edward
Said

(B) Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak

(C) Frantz
Fanon

(D) Homi Bhabha

24.
Which of the following novels has a great impact on the formal experimentation
in contemporary fiction ?

(A) Thomas
Nashe’s The Unfortunate Traveller

(B) Henry
Fielding’s Tom Jones

(C) Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy

(D) Samuel
Richardson’s Pamela

25.
The phrase ‘Only Connect’ is associated with

(A) D. H.
Lawrence

(B) James
Joyce

(C) E. M. Forster

(D) Virginia
Woolf

26.
Which of the following books is by Margaret Atwood ?

(A) The
Stone Angel

(B) No
Fixed Address

(C) The
Edible Woman

(D) Half breed

ØHalf
breed(1973) is the first novel of Maria Campbell, No fixed Address, An Amorous Journey is the novel of Aritha Van Herk, The Stone Angel - Margarette Lawrence

27.
The expression “murderous innocence” is an example of

(A) Oxymoron

(B) Zeugma

(C) Chiasmus

(D) Pun

28.
Read the following statement and the reason given for it. Choose the
right response

Assertion
(A) : Othello killed Desdemona.

Reason
(R) : Because Desdemona committed infidelity.

(A) Both (A)
and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation.

(B) Both (A)
and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation.

(C) (A) is true, but (R) is false.

(D) (A) is
false, but (R) is true.

29.
The Enlightenment believed in the universal authority of

(A) Religion

(B) Tradition

(C) Reason

(D) Sentiments

30.
Which of the following works of John Milton is an elegy ?

(A) Lycidas

(B) L’Allegro

(C) Camus

(D) Paradise
Lost

31.
Which of the following poem by Keats uses the Spenserian stanza ?

(A) Endymion

(B) The
Fall of Hyperion

(C) The Eve of St. Agnes

(D) Lamia

32.
Match the following authors with their respective works with the
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